37 h. ago New blood test could start national screening programme for 55,000 annual cancer patients

The University of Cambridge is developing a blood test that could detect a common cancer that kills 12,000 people each year.

Science

68 h. ago Prem bad boy bonked Transylvanian adult star and 'sucked her blood like vampire'

A Premier League bad boy once found himself in hot water after bonking a Transylvanian temptress and 'sucking her blood like a vampire' - but that was just the start of his troubles

Events

69 h. ago After the Bondi attack, a deepfaked Guardian video went viral. It won't be the last – video

In the days after the worst mass shooting in Australia since Port Arthur, a wave of misinformation spread across social media. A video of Australian federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett claiming four Indian nationals had been arrested, with a Guardian watermark on screen, was in fact a deepfake made from a genuine video of a press conference Barrett had given on 18 December. The video was flagged by online factcheckers, but not before being watched hundreds of thousands of times. As Guardian Australia's technology reporter Josh Taylor explains, these deepfakes are only getting easier to makeFake Minns, altered images and psyop theories: Bondi attack misinformation shows AI's power to confuse Continue reading...

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3 d. ago BBC star targeted by ‘sextortion’ plot after threats to post sexualised deepfake videos online

THE star of a BBC farming programme has been targeted in a £2,000 deepfake "sextortion" plot. Gareth Wyn Jones, 58, known as "the nation's favourite farmer", boasts two million social media followers and presented BBC documentary series The Family Farm. The TV personality, who campaigned against Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax, said his work as an...

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5 d. ago Do the tiny, boring exercises: how to really look after your hips

From the best exercise moves to how many steps you really need to aim for a day, experts weigh in on how to maintain hip health throughout your lifeWhen Elvis the pelvis gyrated and thrust his way across national television screens, audiences were delighted and censors were scandalised. But physiotherapists were probably standing up in their seats cheering at the display of such healthy and limber hip movements.Hips are a key weight-bearing joint, yet we rarely give them the amount of love and attention they deserve. Continue reading...

Politics

5 d. ago Calls for more screenings with 12 young people a week dying from heart conditions

Amanda Hack is now pushing for a national screening programme, with 12 young people a week dying suddenly in the UK from a previously undiagnosed heart condition

Events

6 d. ago Britain's biggest police forces hired tens of thousands of officers without doing full employment checks

Some of the UK's largest forces secretly abandoned pre-employment checks on new recruits for six years after the last Government announced a £3 billion programme to recruit 20,000 officers nationwide.

Events

8 d. ago Government is 'secretly' advertising £81,000 'deputy director' role for controversial digital ID programme

Every working adult in Britain will require the virtual identification card under a 'dystopian' plan announced by Keir Starmer in September.

Politics

8 d. ago Scotland Six Nations matches to be screened on subscription channel

BBC and ITV coverage not affected by additional TV deal

Politics

2 w. ago ‘Hardest question I’ve ever seen’ – Tennis question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire leaves fans totally stumped

MANY fans were left stumped by a tennis question on the most recent episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. As part of a festive special, former England rugby star Joe Marler took part in the programme. Celebrity Traitors finalist Marler, 35, raced to the £125,000 question. And as a former sportsman himself, the...

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